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Imagine staying the night deep in the desert,

sleeping underneath the stars...

..lodging in an airship hidden in a forest...

..or holidaying in a resort perched on top of a glacier.

In this series, we venture across the globe...

We want this hotel to be kept as secret as possible.

..to reveal some of the world's most unique hotels,

hidden in the most surprising of places.

Even people who are from here, they have no idea that this is here.

From treetop retreats and converted caves...

It was just magic, in a way. It was magic.

..to floating hideaways and futuristic escapes.

It's like nothing I've ever seen before.

..we meet the teams who keep them running...

We're inviting people to create unforgettable experiences.

..and the guests living their dreams.

I feel immersed in the beautiful island

and I feel renewed.

..as we explore:

This time, we reveal a sky-high transformation in the Netherlands.

This was the engine room. There was a huge engine right here.

There's a journey to a rustic retreat deep in the Swedish wilderness.

Smoke coming out from the chimney.

And we explore a camouflaged mountain-top resort in Oman.

Are you ready? We'll see.

Our adventure begins in South America,

in the wilds of Uruguay's rural interior.

95% of Uruguay's population lives in the nation's urban areas.

The countryside for many remains mysterious and remote.

200km from the capital, Montevideo, the hills of the Sierra Carape create

a landscape that has long concealed secrets.

Few people live in this terrain of rolling forests and lakes.

The scarce roads that cut through the hills are little more than dusty paths.

But on one remote hillside there are signs of habitation.

This south-facing slope is a vineyard.

It's an unexpected landmark

and the few people who do pass it may never even notice

there's a hotel here.

This is the Sacromonte Landscape Hotel,

a series of cabins cleverly hidden among the vines.

It was built by Peruvian entrepreneur, Edmond Borit.

We want this hotel to be kept as secret as possible.

Edmond decided to build an escape on his vineyard in 2014.

He knew that only extraordinary architecture would work in this environment.

I need something as beautiful as the landscape,

as wow as the landscape,

but without competing with the landscape.

The resort has just four cabins dotted across the vineyard.

Inside each one, 60 square metres of living space is divided

into an open-plan bedroom, living and dining area,

a bathroom, kitchen and a reading nook.

The cabins stand on platforms built from local stone,

each with a different shape to suit the specific plot of land.

The hotel also has separate restaurant and reception buildings,

gardens and an open-air chapel.

It's a concept that we thought that we need to have these cabins hidden.

Edmond took the brave decision to conceal these cabins

by making them shiny.

They are wrapped on three sides by mirrors

that reflect and amplify the surroundings,

creating ever-changing images of the vineyard and hillsides.

The mirrors are one-way,

so guests inside benefit from unobstructed views

with complete privacy.

The timber-covered backs of each cabin evoke woodpiles

typical of rural settlements.

Turf tops each rooftop.

The wood, glass and grass combine

to make each cabin melt into the landscape.

Inside, modern minimalist decor focuses attention

on the world outside.

The black that you have in the ceiling and on the floor is

so that you can frame nature,

because when you have this black, it's like having a frame.

We thought that people would like

to basically sit and enjoy the landscape.

But building such fine design deep in Uruguay's remote hills isn't easy.

To make it possible, each cabin was constructed, in full, in Montevideo,

then transported 200km in one piece to the vineyard.

I could see the truck moving from one side to the other of the road

and I said, "This is going to crash."

All this investment and all this time we have spent on this,

it will ruin in seconds.

But the cabins' humble dimensions became their secret weapon.

They were just small enough to squeeze through the narrow road

that leads to the vineyard.

From here, cranes hoisted them into position

on top of the foundations.

The effort to create one-of-a-kind architecture in this remote landscape paid off.

When visitors arrive today they find a hotel like no other.

Guests primarily come from the United States, Europe and Brazil

to visit the vineyard.

For intrepid visitors, the hotel serves as a base

to explore Uruguay's rugged countryside.

For others, the beauty of the vineyard itself is the main attraction.

People may come here to get away from it all

but the isolation creates certain challenges for Edmond...

..not least feeding all the guests

when the nearest shop is an hour and a half round trip.

In order to get all the supplies, we need to go back to the city

and bring some vegetables every two, three days.

To reduce the number of trips they need to make,

Edmond built two organic kitchen gardens

to supply vegetables and eggs for their chef.

Cooking the food is one thing

but getting it to the guests is quite another challenge.

The cabins are spread over 100 hectares of land.

Room service here requires more than just a trolley.

In a short time we need to deliver breakfast to four families

or four couples staying here.

The timing is vital. The food needs to arrive hot.

Edmond's team use electric buggies to cover the large distances quickly

to get hot food to each cabin in the morning.

For lunch and dinner, there's another solution.

We have this big table that can accommodate up to 50 people

at the same time.

And here we have lunch basically the whole year round

and especially dinner or the sunset dinners in the summer.

Guests can choose to eat communally high on the hill

overlooking the grounds.

For Edmond it's these moments that let him know he's succeeded

in looking after his guests.

It's everything about discovering something hidden,

something secret.

They have nature as it is - pristine, pure, untouched -

but all the comfort of a hotel.

This is a hotel that hides itself

to immerse its guests in the natural world

and it creates a truly secret escape.

Still to come, a hidden getaway with a bird's-eye view in the Netherlands...

You're on top of the world and no-one else can see you.

..and Sweden's most primitive hotel.

You need to fetch water from the stream,

chop the wood, start the fire, heat up the water

and then you can take a shower in the bucket.

We're exploring some of the world's ultimate secret escapes,

from medieval forts perched on clifftops

to villages of tents hidden in the jungle.

Our next stop is Sweden.

The forest region of Skinskatteberg is just under a two-hour drive

west of the city of Stockholm.

This is a tranquil spot,

although signs of life can be found if you know where to look.

Camouflaged amongst the pine, spruce and birch trees

is the Kolarbyn Eco Lodge.

It's a hideaway so well disguised it can hardly be seen.

The eco lodge covers 15,000 square metres of the forest.

There are 12 huts, all with fireplace and a chimney,

a log cabin with six beds

and one larger hut for communal use, with tables and a large fireplace.

A showering area and two compostable toilets are nearby.

The guests are coming here especially to be in the nature

and back to basics.

Malin Bruce is the owner and manager of this rustic retreat

that opened in 2004.

Up to two people plus a child can stay

in each of these hobbit-sized huts

that vary in size from five to eight square metres.

Smoke coming up from the chimney.

When we open the doors it's like opening a present.

They can put a plank between it

to you can sleep together if you are a couple, for example.

It's warm inside when you start the fire.

The 12 huts are replicas of those built in this forest

by people making charcoal from as far back as the 1800s.

It was made by stacking wood

that was then sealed under spruce and old charcoal.

Over a period of six days, the wood would be heated, then dehydrated,

before carbonising and turning into charcoal at 600 degrees Celsius.

While the days of staying in huts like these for work are long gone

their structure and design is very much the same.

The huts is made by wood.

The outside of the huts is made of crushed charcoal

with some tar and sand and lots of dirt

and then lots of moss and grass and then blueberries, raspberries -

you can find a whole forest on the roof of the huts.

It's part of the ethos here that visitors must mainly fend for themselves

without access to any electricity or running water.

Of course we show every guest how to start a fire.

You need to do lots of fire.

You need to have it in the hut to cook,

to heat up the water for cleaning the dishes, for example,

or cleaning yourself.

We provide the ingredients for food. We don't cook for them.

So you need to cook by yourself.

Take a drink from the stream or the lake.

We also have a small spring in the forest

where it's really clear water.

We have a shower room

and the guests, most guests think, "Yippee!"

And then we tell them that you need to fetch water from the stream,

you need to chop the wood, start a fire, heat up the water

and then they can take a shower in the bucket.

There are still many challenges for Malin and the team

to run a retreat in this wild place.

We don't have the electricity. It's dark everywhere.

Inside every hut we need to clean good.

It's always hard in the spring

because you have the ice and water and it's melting.

Then it can be destroyed on the roof.

We have some, a little bit of plastic between,

so you don't get wet in your hair, for example. You need to have that.

A visit here is undeniably a back-to-basics getaway

from modern life.

You can go around in the forest and go for hiking.

We have a lovely lake down here.

It's a cold spring lake, so it's clear and nice water.

You can go canoeing.

Lake Skarsjon is a short walk from the eco lodge

and secluded here is another nod to traditional Scandinavian living.

This is our floating sauna.

The sauna is the national tradition of neighbouring Finland,

that dates back 2,000 years.

Many were built next to lakes

so bathers could get nice and hot before diving into the cold water.

The extreme change of body temperature is thought

to have a beneficial effect on circulatory function.

It's made of wood, as it should be.

So you can go here and start a fire and heat it up for yourself

and then sit and see the beavers swimming by, if you're lucky.

What was once a working landscape is now an escape from just that.

This back-to-basis is so important for people.

It's like a meditation,

that they are standing there and chopping the wood.

You sit by the fire and enjoy the family or friends

and you know that they are going to have a good experience

and then I'm really happy.

There are escapes hidden in unusual landscapes across the world,

from balancing on glaciers in Italy

to surviving in the remote deserts of Jordan.

Our next stop is the Netherlands.

Looking out to the Wadden Sea, 115km north of Amsterdam

is the port town, Harlingen.

It's been a working dock since the 12th century.

But hidden amongst the masts and rigging

of this bustling harbour is

a very private guesthouse.

You just have to look up.

Perched 17m in the air is the Harlingen Harbour Crane Hotel.

Fitted out over three levels,

the structure contains a living and sleeping area,

the crane's original control room

and a sun deck.

Carla Comello has managed this unusual place since 2003.

You're on top of the world and no-one else can see you

and you can see everyone,

so that it's a very special feeling.

It's a place to be on your own.

In this small space they have managed to squeeze in a double bed,

a small area with a fridge and boiling water tap

where visitors can prepare their own light meals...

..a shower cubicle

and a seating area to check out the view.

This was the engine room. There was a huge engine right here.

This wall was closed

but because we wanted people to have a nice view, of course,

we have made a hole.

We had to put new windows in.

We liked to keep the industrial look of things,

so the tubes of the air-conditioning and so on are visible.

When it was a working crane,

an operator would access the cabin using a 17m caged ladder.

As it's now a hotel where visitors of all ages are welcome,

it's not deemed safe,

so a completely new way of reaching it had to be imagined.

The elevators were especially invented for the crane.

We've got the ground elevator that takes you up to the platform.

And then on the platform you step into a kind of tube

which takes you up to the cabin.

The owner always says, "Beam me up, Scotty!"

This space-age addition is powered by two electromotors

under the lift platform.

It's moved up and down by two 10cm-wide belts with teeth

that are controlled by two foot switches.

Inside the pole that runs through the middle of the lift hides

a crucial function for the smooth-running of the hotel.

The biggest challenge was all the utilities,

the water up and down and electricity.

Everything important happens in there,

in that small, small tube.

Encased inside, 17m-long pipes transfer clean water up

and waste water down.

And separated safely from the water,

electricity cables power every feature in the hotel,

including even more surprises for the visitors.

This touch screen controls everything in the crane.

You can do the climate. We've got the lighting, for example.

You can have a shower in five different colours.

So if you prefer red, you can shower in red.

If you prefer blue, you can shower in blue.

And in the toilet, as well - five colours.

This unusually high-tech hotel has come a long way

since it was a working crane,

unloading timber from Russia and Scandinavia.

It was Carla's husband and co-manager, Willem,

who had the idea to turn the crane into a hotel

and it took two painstaking years.

Willem did the interior

and a lot of technicians and people working with metal were involved.

Everything had to be taken apart,

so the jib was taken off.

Everything had to be painted

and then it was hauled back on to the legs.

There's one essential part of the crane that's been left unchanged

for visitors to experience.

This was the place where the crane driver could make the crane turn

and haul things out of the ship.

This is the one with which you can make it turn round.

With this joystick, visitors can spin the crane 360 degrees

and choose what their view is going to be...

..whether it's the Wadden Sea or the bustling city.

Our guests are always very surprised.

It was very important to keep it turning round and round and round and round, of course,

because that's the special thing - a very special thing.

And then we've got one more secret. It's behind this door.

And that's the top.

The heritage of this local landmark has been kept alive and well

and in some incredibly surprising ways.

I think it's very nice that the crane is still here.

For the inhabitants of Harlingen it's an icon

and now that it's got a second career

it's proved its worth, being here.

Coming up - we find out what it takes

to run Britain's most remote guesthouse.

In the middle of winter,

if you don't have power in a place like this

then you are in serious trouble.

We're revealing the world's most secret hotels,

from concealed cave dwellings in Italy

to a Swedish underwater retreat.

Next we venture to the Highlands of Scotland.

At the northernmost tip of mainland Britain

is one of the country's hardest-to-reach wildernesses.

As much Viking as modern British,

to the north lie only the Orkney and Shetland islands.

The landscape here is one of mountains and peat moors,

which conceal a real gem of a hotel.

You go miles and miles and see nothing except the hills,

the heather,

and then suddenly over the hill

you see a small white dot in the distance.

It's like a mirage coming out of nothing.

Situated 45 miles from the nearest town,

its only neighbours are the remnants of stone-age huts

and an iron-age hill fort.

This is mainland Britain's remotest hotel -

the Garvault.

It's the perfect getaway

for those longing to escape modern civilization.

The owners are archaeologists Eva Aderyn

and her husband, Adrian.

Early on we realised we didn't want to run a normal-style hotel.

As well as the sense of uniqueness of being the most remote hotel

we also felt a need

to make it a unique experience for people coming here.

I'm an archaeologist specialised in the Arab countries

and this is also where I met Adrian, in Oman.

We have done a lot of adventures in very remote areas

and the Garvault is the logic of doing all that

and sort of settling down in one of these remote places.

This hotel is completely cut off

from the national power grid and water board,

which means the traditional offering of tea and coffee is off the menu.

I don't think we tick many boxes of an hotel.

We don't have TV, we don't have kettle in the room.

This is something our system would definitely not survive

if everybody comes at five o'clock and puts the kettle on.

The hotel has six bedrooms.

These are fitted out fairly conventionally

but each has a little touch that connects it to the local area.

The lack of reliable electricity means

that other parts of the hotel take on more importance.

It is more like a big house than a hotel.

This is our dining room

and we usually eat together with our guests,

like a group of friends.

Yeah, they all sit together and immediately they start chatting.

The dining room sits alongside a bar and a separate breakfast room.

There's also a library and a drawing room.

Upstairs the hotel has four double bedrooms

and two single rooms.

The layout is designed to encourage guests to come together over a meal

or a wee dram of the local whisky.

It's always important to drink local. It's a very nice whisky.

Unlike other hotels in the area, the Garvault is open year-round,

despite the prospect of heavy snow making the trek here even more of a challenge.

A cosy drawing room with wood-burning stove offers

a warm escape from the wild Scottish weather

and a piano to encourage singalongs.

If it's cold the fireplace here will be lit

and there'll be a cheerful welcome to anyone coming in from the cold.

The breakfast room is home to unique pieces of history.

These tables are more than 120 years old.

They're marble tables from a famous coffee shop in Vienna,

the Cafe Mozart.

You can come and have your breakfast here and sit at a table

that quite likely Orson Welles or maybe Graham Greene will have sat at.

We have been to some remote places in the world

but this is as remote as it gets.

WOMAN: We were driving along looking for a parking place to start our hill walk

and we didn't know about the hotel at all.

We saw the sign at the end of the street

and thought, "Let's pop in and have a look at the place."

It's the quirkiness of it. It's so totally unexpected.

And, indeed, when you get there

you get to interact with the owners and the guests

and so it almost starts to feel like a second home, in a way.

It all makes for a homely hotel that actively embraces its remoteness.

This absolutely does feel like a special place to stay

and a very secret place, as well,

because you find such peace and tranquillity here.

The isolation might be a tonic for weary travellers

but it creates some complex logistics for Adrian and Eva.

The water for the house must be diverted from a local spring.

Waste water needs to be treated,

then it travels through a reed bed for a final filtering

before being released.

Solar power generates most of the hotel's electricity,

stored in eco-friendly salt-water batteries.

But this far north in a country not exactly famous for its sun,

it pays to have a back-up.

This is what keeps the lights on at the Garvault.

In the middle of winter

if you don't have power in a place like this

then you are in serious trouble,

so it is important that we have this back-up

and it is important we make sure it's working.

Are we ready, Ollie? Aye.

MACHINERY WHIRRS

Neither the solar nor the back-up generator are strong enough

to power everything most hotels take for granted,

forcing Eva and Adrian to devise inventive ways

to tackle day-to-day tasks.

My favourite work is not doing the beds!

I just wish sometimes we could iron everything and starch it,

as it is in the big hotels,

but that's not possible here.

With our limited electricity, we don't have irons

and so the sheets that people sleep in

are freshly laundered and freshly pressed by the wind.

Hanging up the washing is Adrian's job

because he has to struggle against the wind

and I might just take off with some of the sheets

if the wind is very strong.

Catering, too, is tricky in a place so far from anywhere.

The nearest restaurant is a 50-mile round trip,

so almost all guests eat in the hotel.

And with the supermarket an hour away,

what's on the menu has to be carefully selected

from what's available, courtesy of the local farmers.

We get the meat from the farm.

We get duck eggs from the neighbouring estate.

So we have to live with what we've got here

and this is also why we don't plan certain menus.

We look in the box. What's in there?

"OK, this is what we cook tonight."

Swiss national Ollie Hofer runs the bar and cooks the meals.

We have quite a long trek to go shopping.

It takes us a 94-mile round trip to get the supplies in.

We have two haunches of venison and they come from the local estate.

Nothing, obviously, goes to waste.

Whatever we cook we use it in pies as well and make venison soup.

This is our little hideaway, secret place - our cottage.

This cottage is known as a bothy in Scotland.

It was originally designed to shelter those who worked at a fishing lodge

on the site where the hotel sits today.

It's an off-grid hideaway, even quieter than the main hotel.

Every person gets a solar lamp

and this is how they walk through the bothy

when they need a light.

This is for people

who really, really want to be away from everything.

This is a remote place in a remote hotel

and it's absolutely gorgeous to come here

in the late afternoon and see the sun setting

and you're so away from it all

because here you have no civilization any more.

This hotel offers true sanctuary amongst moorland and mountains.

It's the perfect place to switch off,

be at one with nature and enjoy the peace.

You really can get away from everything.

It's so far away from civilization

that it gives you a chance to come down

and maybe find yourself a little bit

but also appreciate every little thing you do have so much more.

And keeping all this running

in a way that visitors to the hotel feel it's just like any hotel

this is a sense of achievement.

Still to come - a far-flung resort that can only be seen from above.

We're 250km from the nearest city. We're at the top of a mountain.

We're completely isolated.

The world is full of secret getaways,

from lodges tucked away in the Canadian mountains

to a dream stay for aviation geeks in New York.

Now we're travelling to the southeast coast of the Arabian peninsula,

to the Sultanate of Oman.

174km southwest from the Omani capital, Muscat,

these are the Al Hajar mountains.

Known as the Grand Canyon of the Middle East

and only accessible by a 4x4 is Al Jabal Al Akhdar.

Meaning the Green Mountain in Arabic,

it rises to a height of 2,980m.

It's an ancient place but what you can't see from the valley floor

is a most modern hotel.

This is the Alila Jabal Akhdar Resort.

The word Alila itself is a Sanskrit word, which is Indonesian -

means surprise

and really when you arrive at Alila you are surprised.

This five-star resort covers 8,000 square metres.

On the site are 84 suites split across 13 buildings.

There are two villas with private pools,

a restaurant, a gym,

two public pools

and a spa which extends outside to a massage hut

with a 360-degree view of the mountains.

As you approach, you really don't see the resort

until you are absolutely on top of it.

Karl Marshall is the general manager.

We're 250km from the nearest city

and we're at the top of a mountain

that is a difficult and rewarding drive to get to.

We're completely isolated.

You go for a walk around the resort, there is no noise.

You don't hear any trucks, any traffic.

The hotel opened in 2014.

At the heart of its concept and design was the desire

to make a resort that's camouflaged in the landscape...

..while at the same time creating buildings

that represent the exterior appearance

of traditional Omani forts.

We wanted to create the sense that you're actually part of nature,

not just looking down upon it.

To achieve this took three years, 100 builders and engineers

and cost nearly £40 million.

The rocks that we've used in the building construction are all from the mountain.

We've used lots of timber aspects

and really, you know, when you see the light hitting the mountain

and also hitting the resort,

you get exactly the same, just blending all of them together.

The exterior reflects the natural heritage of the region,

while the interior is an homage to modern Omani contemporary design.

Its minimalist style incorporates local artwork and craftsmanship.

170 staff work here and half of them are from the region itself.

Arif Al Sariri is from the local area

and is responsible for the resort's front of house.

Every suite and villa his visitors stay in is located

near to the edge of the gorge, facing out to 400km of mountains.

There are six types of accommodation,

including 21 mountain-view suites...

It is around 52 square metre.

..five loft suites...

On the mezzanine there's an amazing room with an amazing view.

..eight terrace suites...

We have a small surprise to see here. Let's go to see the door.

Are you ready? We'll see. Please.

This is the surprise I'm talking about.

..and the most deluxe pied-a-terres on site are the two Jabal villas.

Each measuring 361 square metres,

they both boast two bedrooms, with an epic bathroom.

The shower area would be this side

and also would be a steam room there.

In the middle here we have a big tub here for relaxing,

plus we have a nice Jacuzzi outside.

A pool area there is around 15 metres.

Pool area here is a nice one

because for the families, they can enjoy together.

No-one will disturb.

As a five-star resort,

visitors expect a high standard of cuisine during their stay

but providing such quality in a remote place,

two and a half hours from the closest city,

posed a challenge the hotel had to overcome.

One of the challenges of being so remote, really, is the supply chain,

getting the produce and the products that we need on a daily basis

up to the resort.

We have a truck that goes down to the city to collect the produce,

the food, the engineering materials, whatever it might be,

and the trucks bring them up the mountain.

From the start, the hotel's plan was to become

as self-reliant and sustainable as possible

and they have big plans,

starting with the food the guests and staff eat.

We are doing today a Bloody Mary

but we are experimenting with the things we have here in the garden.

We are doing tomato leaf vodka.

The hope is that as soon as possible

this 361 square metre garden will expand

to provide 80% of the vegetables the resort needs.

For the moment we are growing tomatoes, herbs,

lemongrass, aubergines, eggplant,

zucchinis, olives.

And nothing in the garden goes to waste.

Leftovers from the restaurant are made into compost

and every part of the fruit and vegetables grown here

are used to their maximum potential.

And we will pour this.

So at the end we have this transparent Bloody Mary

and we will finish with the tomato flower,

which will give big tomato punch.

It's all about the tomato and all about the freshness -

super tasty.

The other most important challenge

to provide even a basic level of hospitality

was how to get all the water they needed

to this arid plateau.

When the hotel first opened,

every drop of water had to be brought up the mountain by truck

and obviously we wanted to change that as quickly as we could.

So phase two was to make three boreholes

1km from the resort and pump the water in.

So all the water that we're drinking, for example,

goes through a treatment plant.

We bottle our own water into reusable glass bottles.

All of the waste water goes through a sewage treatment plant

here on the property

and then goes back into the garden as grey water.

The resort also relies on the heat of the sun

to power up to 70% of its hot water through solar panelling.

Using the environment to their benefit is

an enormous part of running the hotel while visitors enjoy their stay.

I think right at the top of the list for so many people is just to relax.

You know, our lives are so busy these days.

When we get the chance to really just relax and find some solitude,

this is a great place to do that.

Hiking trails weave up and down the Al Hajar mountains

and the landscape of the resort hides one particular path

that's not only elusive but pretty terrifying, too -

a death-defying, fixed-rope course right over the edge of the canyon.

Mainly found in the Alps, it's called the via ferrata,

which means "iron way" in Italian.

You're going out over the edge and climbing around a cliff face

that looks down 600m.

The natural environment is a big part of the DNA of this hotel,

whether helping to conceal it in the landscape,

to provide essentials for its guests

or to take centre stage as the night draws in.

The sunsets in Jabal Akhdar happen really quickly.

The colours that bounce back

and reflect off of the stone, you know, canyon is quite unbelievable.

Once the sun has waned,

it's time for perhaps the biggest secrete of this resort

to steal the limelight.

A very dark sky, when there is no full moon, of course,

makes it a perfect location for stargazing.

Alanood Ali Alsalami is the resident astronomer and geologist.

It really connects you to nature

because it's away from everything,

away from the city noise, as well, not just light.

We see different planets, like for tonight we have Saturn and Jupiter.

The winter constellations started to rise

and in there you can see the Andromeda galaxy.

Very faint but visible.

Looking into the stars every night, you never get bored of it.

This rooftop resort is proof that the world's most secret hotels

can come in all shapes and sizes.

You just have to journey to find them.

Perched 2,000m above sea level definitely makes us

a fairly unique and special location.

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